Professor Joseph Byrne has been a professor of economics at Heriot-Watt University since 2013. His research areas include international finance, financial economics and applied econometrics. He has academic journal publications in Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance and Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. Joseph has also co-authored a book, "Financial Structure" (CUP).